An Alchemist endeavors to turn base
metals into gold while the entrepreneur drives to turn opportunities
into successful business. This analogy between the entrepreneurs and alchemists
is not only about gold or money it is about the drive to transform the low value into high value.

An Alchemist is committed to what
he is doing and is stubborn to turn metals into gold, and the entrepreneur
is the same as he is committed to bring his idea to reality and he is a great
believer in his idea and stubborn in achieving it.

One of the skills the entrepreneur
has is that he can look at positive things and find opportunities instead of
barriers or problems and tries to overcome the barriers by utilizing new
innovative approaches. This is the same with the alchemist who looks for
every new way and tries different opportunities to get the gold.

Although the entrepreneur keeps trying
different opportunities sometimes he succeeds and other times he fails, he learns
from both the success and the failure and build experience from that and lead
his ideas, team and new opportunities into better position. Failures are seen
as speed bumps rather than barriers and encourage entrepreneurs to look
for options in their approach. Alchemists historically were driven by
the creation of gold.The byproduct
of their experiments contributed to the humanity countless innovations that may never have been discovered. Alchemists
learned from their trial and errors and helped in the formulation of the science
of chemistry we know today.

Alchemists
faced lot of risks while trying their experiments which is similar what the entrepreneur
faces every day in leading his ideas into success and market.

One of the hardest things in the world the
entrepreneur tries to do which is harder than combining material to get
gold, is creating win-win human relations.An entrepreneur is an alchemist at combining people
together.

Finally, alchemists are crazy as
are most entrepreneurs. Both are driven by what could be rather than
being limited by what is and has been. This helps them in introducing
innovative solution by not thinking as the rest of the others, as Innovation comes from creative with persistence.